Lupus News

Researchers have developed electronic health record algorithms to identify patients with lupus, according to published data.

Patients with inflammatory arthritis who underwent total hip arthroplasty experienced higher rates of complications compared with patients who had osteoarthritis, according to results.

Patients with mild lupus had increased insulin resistance and hyperglucagonemia, while having normal glucose tolerance and a preserved beta-cell function and skeletal muscle GLUT-4 translocation, according to recently published data.

Belimumab reduced disease activity and corticosteroid use after 6 months, according to real-world results published in Rheumatology and Therapy.

A team of EULAR researchers published recommendations for health issues and family planning for women with lupus or antiphospholipid syndrome.

In a cohort of 487 patients with lupus but without cardiovascular disease, 21.4% had electrocardiogram-4 abnormalities and 24.2% had electrocardiogram-5 abnormalities, according to recently published data.

Patients with lupus who used corticosteroids had higher levels of luteinizing hormone and more frequent bioactive testosterone deficiency compared with the general population, according to recently published data.

Compared with the general population, patients with lupus had a three-fold increased risk for heart attack and a two-fold increased risk for stroke, according recently published data.

WASHINGTON — Frailty — a syndrome of weight loss, weakness, slowness, exhaustion and inactivity — was associated with mortality, poor physical and cognitive function and overall functional decline in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, according to findings presented at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting.

Compared with matched controls, patients with lupus were 2.14-times more likely to have dementia, according to a recently published study.